More information is available on the company’s website (opens in new tab).BlackMagic ATEM Mini - HDMI Live Streaming SwitcherĪTEM Mini is fast to set up and easy to use. “Virtual production only works if you can react and make creative decisions in real time, and that is what the Blackmagic Design products allowed.” Lighting and atmospheric decisions could be done right on set “The DP, VFX supervisor and camera operators would know where they were landing because they could see it using Ultimatte. “The Simulcam and Ultimatte workflow was amazing,” he said.

This enabled a workflow in which virtual elements and specific lighting setups could be played back through Unreal Engine, the company said. The workflow relied on the HyperDeck Studio 4K Pros to create custom playlists along with basic playback and recording. Offloading to hardware saves so much data use that is needed elsewhere on set.” “You can’t beat Ultimatte’s hardware-based real-time keying. We could do front plates and back plates through a single Ultimatte, and we relied on the Ultimatte’s hardware-based processing to send a real-time key to Unreal,” he said. The images were then integrated into Unreal Engine in real time. “The workflow used Simulcam with layers of augmented CG layers and Ultimatte 12 as the keyer. Initially, Geduldick used two Ultimatte 12s per Simulcam feed, but with software improvements Blackmagic Design made to the keyer, he was able to use a single Ultimatte 12 per Simulcam setup by the end of the production, the company said.

We could not have done that without Ultimatte and HyperDeck.” “There was so much happening each day, and we had to make sure we could get a cart wherever and whenever they were needed. “No one had ever tried to do this across multiple sets for three months straight,” said Geduldick.

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